A Storybook Home in Kingston with Lush Garden Space

  |  October 1, 2025

This storybook home in Kingston is awaiting its next chapter with a new owner to love it.

The saltbox-style house and its lush gardens were designed by a master builder and landscaper; all you need to do is move in. The property is lovely, with perennial gardens, flowering trees, Adirondack-style arbors, and intricate stone walls.

The home is beautifully eclectic. For instance, the living room has live-edge shelves, wide-plank wood floors, and a stone fireplace framed by white brick. It holds a Quadra Fire woodstove.

The flow of the main floor is magical, with interesting finishes and neat little corners everywhere.

There’s a birdhouse on the stairwell, and a shelving unit that’s a mish-mash of woods.

The kitchen features stainless steel appliances, copper countertops, and cabinets repurposed from an oak medicine cabinet from the 1940s, according to the listing.

A big butcher block serves as an island, across from a slim pantry closet.

Live-edge shelves hold canned goods next to a stone-tiled entry hall.

A first-floor bedroom has its own entrance from the outdoor deck. It’s currently an office.

The accompanying full bath has a large soaking tub and lots of rustic stone tile and wood.

Head up the stairs to a “bouquet” inside the railings and a large loft area with its own closet.

Another bedroom has ancient wood flooring (could this be the heart pine flooring excavated from the ocean floor that the listing described?).

That bedroom leads out to a second-story, open-air deck with a funky, greenhouse-like addition on it.

We’d totally stock up on tons of plants for this space.

The deck has rich woods, both newer and vintage.

The second-floor bathroom has a shower and pickled-wood wainscoting.

Wall-to-wall carpeting covers the floor in the third bedroom.

The home’s 3.7 acres include this funky red art studio. It has a covered porch/carport…

…and really cool indoor space along with a workbench made from a bowling lane.

This eclectic, free-standing structures gives “Phantom Tollbooth” vibes.

The acreage has served as a colorful canvas for the previous owner’s painterly green thumb.

The house is just one mile from the Ashokan Center and the picturesque Ashokan Reservoir. It’s on the market for $789,000.

If this storybook home in Kingston matches your vibe, find out more about 323 Beaverkill Road, Kingston, from Jeanne Boice, licensed real estate salesperson, with the Murphy Realty Group, Howard Hanna Rand Realty.

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